With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation Routhier Dominique
With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation Routhier Dominique The little-known story of the Situationist International's struggle against the automation of everyday…
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With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation Routhier Dominique
The little-known story of the Situationist International's struggle against the automation of everyday lifeNo other art movement has so profoundly influenced radical politics as the Situationist International. Through each of the book's four chapters, Dominique Routhier dissects Situationist pamphlets, documents, artworks, and objects that refract elements of a "cybernetic hypothesis" the theoretically hyperbolic belief But beyond the clichs about its purported leader Guy Debord, the "society of the spectacle," dtournement and drive, lies a more complex story about key historical shifts in the composition of capital, work, labor, art, and revolutionary theory during the 1950s and 60s.With and Against reframes the history of the Situationist International as a struggle to come to terms with the then-emerging ideologies of cybernetics and automation.
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